Posted on 06/03/2005 2:42:36 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Will Tom Brokaw, the Today show, Chris Matthews and CBS's Early Show offer a correction? As Brit Hume noted Thursday night, the Washington Post corrected a Wednesday article which reported, that on Hardball Tuesday night, Pat Buchanan had called Mark Felt a "traitor." The correction explained: "Buchanan said that Felt had no personal loyalty to President Richard M. Nixon, 'so I don't consider him a traitor in that sense.'" In fact, it was Matthews who first falsely claimed that Buchanan had tagged Felt a "traitor." On Wednesday's Today, Brokaw was appalled by Buchanan's supposed characterization: "I think Pat said yesterday that Mark Felt was a 'traitor.' A traitor to what? The truth?!" On CBS's Early Show the same day, Wyatt Andrews asserted: "Several former aides to President Nixon still argue what Felt did was wrong with one aide, Pat Buchanan, calling Felt a 'traitor.'"
Hume's June 2 "Grapevine" item on FNC's Special Report with Brit Hume: "The Washington Post reported yesterday that after learning that Deep Throat was actually former FBI number-two Mark Felt, quote 'former Nixon speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan labeled Felt a 'traitor' for having worked with reporters on stories that did severe damage to the administration.' What's more, while chatting with readers about it online later in the day, one Washington Post reporter called Buchanan's reaction quote, 'darkly hilarious.' But Buchanan never called Felt a traitor. In fact, in an interview with Chris Matthews, Buchanan said that because Felt had no personal loyalty to Nixon quote, 'I don't consider him a traitor in that sense.' The Post has now issued a correction."
Indeed, the June 2 Post carried this correction on page A2: "A June 1 article on reaction to the confirmation that former FBI official W. Mark Felt was the Watergate source known as 'Deep Throat' incorrectly said that Patrick J. Buchanan called Felt a 'traitor' in an interview on MSNBC's Hardball. Buchanan said that Felt had no personal loyalty to President Richard M. Nixon, 'so I don't consider him a traitor in that sense.'" That's posted at: www.washingtonpost.com
Full story: http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050603.asp#3
You should hear the media/press on Hardball right now
Ben Stein said he was Jewish...not Pat......and someone that Richard Nixon asked on the tapes.
Thank you. That's been my take on this subject ever since it broke. Anybody who goes over the head of their immediate supervisor to report their immediate supervisor's misconduct to their immediate supervisor's immediate supervisor is just asking to get canned.
Felt was in a tough jam. If I had been in his shoes at the time I would have done just as he did, but in the open. He obviously couldn't have gone up the chain of command because everyone above him was suspect. So he went to the media and kept his mouth shut for 30 years.
That's the part which makes him a coward. He exposed the wrong-doing of the Nixon administration but didn't have the balls to take the credit for it. Terrorists and assassins regularly take public credit for their deeds, but Felt didn't. His motives with regard to the above-mentioned facts speak volumes about his actions between Watergate and the recent happenings.
I'll bite...who's Hal Turner?
Chrissy Matthews beat up Alexadra Polosi the other day also, and he beat up some other woman besides Malkin also. BULLY BOY.
Son comes to father and asks, "Dad, what's the difference between theoretical and hypothetical?"
"Son, I'll illustrate that most illuminatingly to you if you'll ask your mother and sister a question."
"Sure Dad, what do you want me to ask them?"
"Ask them if they'll have sex with a man for a million dollars."
Son comes back with a perplexed look on his face. "Well, did you get an answer to the question?"
"Yes, I did Dad. Mom said that it would have to be much more than a million dollars because you're a really swell guy, but that she'd share it with you. Sis said that she'd do it merely if the guy had a million dollars, and only bought her a big diamond ring, a house with a fancy shrubbery out front (you know one with two levels and a nice walkway between the two levels), a shiny red Ferrari, and big English Sheep dog for the backyard, and for he to be able to help you and mom out financially when you get older."
"Well, there you have it son, I hope its all clear in your mind now."
"What, Dad? I don't see how that helps at all?"
"Don't you see son? We, hypothetically could be a couple of millionaires, but are theoretically living with a couple of prostitutes."
Tonite, Richard Cohen first called Pat a criminal, the Chrissy corrected him, then Cohen called him The Criminally INSANE!!
http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/01-13-99.html
January 13, 1999
The Impeachment of Richard Nixon
Memo To: A Newsweek columnist
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: Comparing impeachments
Good, because you're certainly not qualified to comment on one of our best and most accurate commentators.
Nixon didn't betray the public, he was trying to defeat the scum that have taken over and destroyed this country. If Woodward and Bernstein cared about the country they would have confronted the president personally with their info, rather than using it to weaken the country.
Bravo!
Lauer is a hack. When he interviewed Colson he failed to even mention what Colson had done in the Watergate scandal.
What we have is an ignorant populace being shoveled easy to digest news by media too afraid to bore or anger an audience.
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